Neonatal pain management has received increasing attention over the past four decades, along with the technological advances made in neonatal care which have increased the survival of neonatal patients. Empirical evidence ...

Although the nursing sector has not been spared the effects of human resource shortages and Human Immune-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) crisis in Lesotho, it still remains the backbone of ...

Objectives. To investigate the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding HTV infection and AIDS among patients presenting with a sexually transmitted disease at the polyclinic department of the Chiawelo Community ...

Title: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of caregivers about oral lesions in HIV positive patients in
NGOs /CBOs in Region 8, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
Background: The HIV pandemic continues to be a major public health ...

The purpose of the study is to ascertain the knowledge, attitudes and practices
of hospital management at the Johannesburg Hospital regarding disaster
preparedness.
Objectives: The study is to assess the current status ...

Background: HIV prevalence is increasing and more people are being infected despite the messages and the advertising.1 Namibia has one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the world of 21.3% as at end of 2002. Two ...

BACKGROUND: Diarrhea is an important health problem and has remained a threat to the lives of children under 5 years old especially in developing regions of the world. Presently, it is estimated that about 1.5 million of ...

Background: Despite many advances on evidence-based practice (EBP), nursing is still not based on evidence. Trained intensive care unit (ICU) nurses may be the key to EBP in the ICU.
Purpose: To describe the knowledge, ...

BACKGROUND
There is an extraordinary common medical condition that affects millions of people,
mostly women. It is associated with high levels of disability, discomfort and loss of
productivity. People seldom talk about ...

Title: The knowledge, attitudes and use of performance enhancing substances and supplements among male High-school first and second team athletes in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, South Africa.
Objective: Pressure ...

The causative association between alcohol, cannabis use and accidents in the workplace
have been shown in some studies. The adverse effects of these on employee’s health,
work performance, public and industrial safety ...

Introduction:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first isolated from human blood in 1983 at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Currently there is no cure for HIV and control efforts emphasize prevention. One of the components ...

Introduction
Botswana still has the second highest HIV prevalence in the world with little indication of any significant decline. In
Botswana, women are disproportionately affected: young women account for more than half ...

Different researchers commit themselves to differing hypotheses when addressing the
relationship between attitudes to unauthorised copying of software and the level of moral
development. Some concentrate on moral intensity, ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of nurses working in ICU with respect to pain management, glycaemic control and weaning from mechanical ventilation, care areas that are commonly guided by protocols. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of nurses working in ICU with
respect to evidence based guidelines for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia. A
non experimental, descriptive, correlational ...